Training tutors has historically been and continues to be one of the most important, as well as the most labor- and time-intensive needs that directors of writing centers are called to address. As technological advancements have been made, those needs have continued to grow into…
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Previous studies in the field of e-tutoring dealt either with asynchronous tutoring or synchronous conferencing as modes for providing e-tutoring services to English learners. This qualitative research study reports the experiences of Arab ESL tutees with both asynchronous tutor…
This dissertation uses the Community of Practice (CoP) framework (Leve & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998; Wenger et al., 2002; Wenger, et al., 2015) to explore the learning and knowledge construction from the perspective of a community of former writing center tutors in México. It is…
This thesis utilizes the Institutional Ethnographic methodologies originally developed by Dorothy Smith but adapted for composition and writing center studies by Melissa Nicolas and Michelle LaFrance to research the UL Lafayette Writing Center. A literature review is conducted t…
From the recognized beginning of the “laboratory” movement in composition instruction, teachers have sought to employ new and more practical methods useful in developing student writing. Such trends continue today as new generations of students enter the academy and new challeng…